“It makes me extremely sad that the fossil fuel refinery is moving to Granadilla. I share the joy of the Santacruceros for the dismantling of the Refinery, but I regret that all this type of industry always ends up in the same place, in this case, in Granadilla de Abona, already overloaded with a port and an industrial estate”, he said yesterday In Onda Tenerife, the municipal spokesperson for the PSOE in the Consistory of Granada, Jennifer Miranda.
The councilor recalled that “I was part of the board of directors of the Port Authority until I resigned just when the transfer of fossil fuel reserves to the port of Granadilla was discussed. That is why today it is not good news that this industry reaches the municipality.
On the subject of large infrastructures, we have to change them in Tenerife, because we cannot aspire to an ecological transition by maintaining this type of industry on our soil. For us it is very bad news, because it is going to affect our coast, our air and the cleanliness of our beaches.”
When asked about the port of Granadilla and its indisputable status as an industrial port, Jennifer Miranda pointed out that “everyone knows my opposition to that port, which is clearly made to be industrial, but we cannot continue using fossil fuel . The port was built and then it was thought to do it, and this is what normally happens with many infrastructures on the Island”. For this reason, Miranda valued the determined commitment of the Government of the Canary Islands to “renewable energies”, where “an immense and wonderful job is being done to become an energetically sustainable island as soon as possible and another zero energy like the one we suffer cannot be achieved.” a few years ago”.
However, the PSOE spokesperson in Granadilla warns that “we are in favor of the windmills, but what cannot happen is that all the wind farms are located in Arico or Granadilla, there must be an island balance”. He did not end up opposing the introduction of offshore wind farms, “as long as they are well planned and there is consensus with all sectors, as our socialist colleagues from Arico have requested, who presented allegations to that project, although we all agree on try to achieve that transition to clean energy as soon as possible, and even more so when now they put that fossil fuel industry in the municipality.”
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For Jennifer Miranda, the municipal government (CC-PP) “neither is there nor is it expected”, neither in the matter of moving the refinery nor in other matters. According to her, “the Regalado government prefers to speak little, because its management is scarce or non-existent”, emphasizing its disastrous social policy, when “there are families who have to wait up to four months to receive social emergency aid, such as for receive milk for the children”, without having been able to “use a single euro of the 60 million that they have in the treasury”.
